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The past, present and future combine in this week’s Off The Chart – things get tense. Buh-boom. Steve and Julian go way back to the chart of 6 August 1980, playing some of the hits you don’t hear so often and some that you do, plus the top five in full and three tracks from a genuine classic album of the week which, by the law of averages, you probably already own. Why was Prince such a big fan of Esther Rantzen, which ’60s star made a solo comeback in Japan with a B.A. Robertson cover and… who was the “silent killer”? Click play to find out!

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Need something to help you through the Christmas wrapping? Join Steve and Julian for a trip back to 1982 in this week’s Off The Chart! As always there’s a host of forgotten and half-remembered hits, three tracks from one of … read more

We’re going back thirty years to this day in 1988 on this week’s Off The Chart for another two hours of hits, headlines and house music – as well as rock, pop, reggae, soul and even some old time music … read more

It’s the end of another dexy so that means our lovely Patreon backers are treated to another exclusive edition of Further Off The Chart, in which Steve and Julian from Off The Chart play some of the tracks that were … read more